Bottle-handling apparatus.



W. STBNDER.

BOTTLE HANDLING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED APB.. 13, 191411 Patented N0v.17,1914.

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Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented Nov. 1.7, 1914..'

Application filed April 13, 1914. Serial No. 831,444.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, l/VILLIAM STENDER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of `Wisconsin', have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle Handling Apparatus; and I do hereby de-v clane that the following is a full, clear, and exa/'zt description thereof.

My invention has for its object to improve the bottle-handling apparatus to which my Letters Patent No. 1,043,548, of November 5, 1912, relates, and it consists in what is hereinparticularly set forth with reference tothe accompanying drawings and pointed out in the' claims of this speciiicatiom the novelty in the improved apparatus being an automatic mechanism by which the bottles in rows are intermittently fed forward in an annealing oven, and in details of the mechanism.

.y Figure 1 of the drawings represents a cross-section view of my improved bottle handling apparatus in connection with an annealing oven also in cross-section, the

Vview being indicated by line 1 1 in Figs.

2 and 3; Fig. 2, an elevation partly in secn tion on the plane indie ted by line 2 2 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a sectio al view indicated by 30 line 3 3 in Fig. 1; Fig. 4, asimilar view of a detail of the apparatus indicated by line 4 4 in Fig. 2, and Fig. 5, a horizontal sectional view indicated by line 5 5 in Y Fig. 4.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 5 indicates a standard, and 11a frame rigid on the standard, 12 a vertical shaft for which the frame is provided with bearings, 13- a grooved pulley fast on the shaft, 10 a conveyer-chain that runs on the pulley, 19 brackets in connection with the chain at regular intervals thereof and extending laterally therefrom, 2O a supporting roller hung in connection with each bracket to travel on a track 3. A lower end projection 22 of each bracket constitutes a support, and in hinged connection with each bracket is a holder 23, said bracket and holder con* stituting a bottle-carrier. vSupported in connection with the standard 11 is a. bottle receiving table .24 in register with the door of an annealing oven through an opening in a wall-plate 2 of the same. Fast on the table is a standard 25 and pivotally connected to the standard is abottle receiving tray 26 having a bottle-supporting scat 27 provided with an underside lug 28. Fast to the back of the tray 26 is an arm 29, and attached to the arm is a counterweight 3() by which said tray is tilted into normal position when clear of a bottle.y l

Bottles are discharged from the carriers onto the tray 2G by means of a tripping device in the form of a U-shapled bracket 31 mounted ein the frame 11 and having rollers hung'therein. The bracket 19 of each bottle-carrier passes between the rollers 32, and the holder 23 of said carrier is tilted by said rollers. The bottle in a tilted carrier slides into the tray 26 then in normal position, the result being an overbalancing of the counterweight 30 and a swing of said tray to a vertical position to thereby stand said-bottle on the table 24 opposite the entrance to the annealing oven, this position of the bottle being shown by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2.

The shaft 1 0 is in gear with a horizontal shaft 41 for which the frame 11 is provided with bearings, and a driving sprocket-wheel is shown fast on the shaft 41. Another hori' zontal shaft has its bearings on the frame l1 and is geared to the shaftA 4 1. Fast on the shaftl is a pair of arms 34 that are rotated through slots in the table 24 and act to discharge a bottle from the then ver` tical tray 2in' and move said bottle into the annealing oren. Another arm 36 is fast on the shaft 33 between the arms 34 to extend in advance of the same, and an anti-friction roller 3T is carried by the arm 56 in oppo.

sition to a spring latcliplate 3S suspended' in connection with the table 24 and having formed therewith an'upwardly projecting stud 39 that comes into engagement with the lug 2S of the bottle seat 27 of the tray 26, whereby said tray is held in vertical position for a predetermined time after a. bottle is discharged therefrom, in order vto delay action of the counterweight 30 until said bottle has tray-clearance on the table 24.

Excepting the wall plate 2 of the annealing oven, the general construction, arrangement and operation of parts'abore specitied is similar to what is disclosed in my Letters Patr-.nt aforesaid and they are similarlv indicated.

The wall plate 2 of the annealing oven and another plate 2 in said'oveirare provid with bearings for a rock-shaft 66 that extends through said wall plate. Fastened by set screws 67 or other suitable means on liti,

the rock-shaft arc elhovv levers, the arms of each lerer being of dilgerent lengths. Hung in connection vwith the shorter arms G8 egli said levers are links (S) coupled to brackets i!) on a rail il tor Awhich the plates 2, 2', are provided with guides 72 and 73 respectively` Pivotaly connected to ther longer arms GS olf the levers are hars 74 connected to a rail T5, and hung` in connection with the liars are rollers TG that oppose the floor olf the annealing` oren. Attached to each'of the hars 7l is a chain or other suitable flexihle runner TT supported h v a bracket 79 fastened to the underside of the oven Hoor, and suspended in connection with each chain is a counterweinl? 80. Fastened to the plates 2, 2', is a rail i'l, and the bottles are `ted to the annealing oren hetween lthe stationaary rail and the movable rail 7l.

Fast on the rock-shaft (36, outside of the annealing oven7 is a crank Sl, and a link is coupled to the crank and pull rod S3 for which the 'Frame ll is provided with guides. Loose on the pull rod is the hub of a hellcrank attached to a spiral supporting spring' 84: secured in connection with said rod. The bell-crank huh is provided with a lug 85 and a pin S6 extends through the pull rod S23 to sexve as a stop in the path oi the lun'. (lne arm S7 of the hell-crank is normallyv in the path of a button S8 fast on the outer end of the rod S9 of a springcontrolled piston il() in a cylinder 91 attached to a wall ot the annealing oven, and a valve controlled pipe 92 conveys compressed an r other fluid under pressure to the cylinder hack ot the piston. By an eX- ertion of pressure on the arm 87 of the hell-crank, said crank is turned, against spring-resistance to bring its other arm Si" in the path o'll a groored roller 03 carried in connection with crank 93 last on the shaft 33, whereby motion is imparted to the rock shai't GG and the elbow-levers therewith against resistaiiee ol' tle countervfeights 90, said arm 8i of the hell-crank lining fashioned to match the groove ot' said roller.

The innermost hottie ot' a ro\v between the guide-rails 7l and 7l actuates a valve lcver ill. agaii'ist resistance of a spring W ronnecting,r said lerer and the plate Q', the ralre heine; in a, Casing 9G to wl'iich the pipe fr? and a fluidy under pressure suiiply pipe ill are coupled. 'The operation of the valve lever results in the alvore described operation elf the heil'crank lever, and rock-shaft i" if'. aforesaid, \,rherehy the rail 7l is elei hy the elbow-levers to clear an adjacent ron' olf hotties 'and at the saine time, r is actuated to more said row oi the rail 'To hotties tf'nxn'ard in the oven ahead o l` the ref einoratiie path o'll said rail 7l, the opera tion oil' moving tue lwfttlra--r in rows lining re current, A row Yot hotties havingr heen. :nf/ucd forward in the oren, the valre-lever Lintec/2 is automatically returned to normal position, to cut oit fluid under pressure from the cylinder 91, whereupon the piston 90 i and the spring-controlled hell-crank automatically return to normal` position, and 7o the counterweights operate to return the rail 75, the hars 74, elbow-levers, rock-shaft 23, crank 8l and spindle 83 to their normal positions.

l claim:

l.. The combination of an annealing oven, a tahle in register with the floor of the oven through an opening in a Wall of said oven, means -for deliver;7 of bottles to the table upright thereon and for pushing the hottles@ therefrom into the oven, a stationary guideJ rail and a vertically movable guide rail hej tween which the bottles are alined in a row in the oven, a pusher' rail movable on the oven floor hack of the bottles, means for reciprocating` the movable guide rail and pusher rail, and means :in the path of the innermost bottle of said row for starting reciprocation ot the movable rails, one of these 'lli rails being elevated clear of said bottles when the sa me are being acted upon by the other.

2. The combination of an annealing oven, a table in register with the floor of the oven through an opening in a. Wall of said oven, 95 means for delivery of bottles to the'table upright thereon and for pushing the bottles therefrom into the oven, a stationary guide rail and a vertically i'novable guideirail between which the bottles are alined lin a rovi7 loo in the oven, a rock-shaft extending from Within said oven through a Wall ofthe same, elbow levers fast on the rock-shaft and having,i arms thereof in link connection with the moi. ahle guide rail Jfor which guides are pI'O- o vided, counterweightcd bars in pivotal conJ nection with the other arms of said levers, a pusher rail connected to said arms toreeiprocate upon the oven floor hack of the bottles, means for actuating said shaft llo against eounterweight resistance, and means in the path ot a row of bottles between the guide rails for starting the Sha-ft actuatin ineans, the movahle guide rail being elevate clear of the bottles operated upon. by the pusher rail.

5. The combination of an annealing oven, a table in register `with the 'floor of the oven through an openingin a Wall of said oven, means for delivery et bottles to the table upright thereon and for pushing the hotties therefrom into the oyen, bottle alining, clearing;- and pushingr mechanism inthe oven ciunprisingV a roclcshatt extending through an oren rvall, a crank fast on the shaft outside the oren, a v pull rod coupled to the c mk, a springi-controlled bell-crank in rotary adjustable connection with the pull rod, a cylinder provided with a piston having a, rod exertive in one direction against an arm of the bQILCrzmk, a rotary crank operative on the Oiher arm of said bell-crank when swung into its path by said piston, und a sp1ng-eo11trol1ed Valve lever in ehe path of 21 row of bottles :dined `in said oven, said Valve lever servmg to govern admlsslon of fluid under pressure to said Cylinder back or the plston thereln. 

